Marc Anthony Glover, right, directs Seth Bredbenner, left, Milo Kyle and Alane Rozell during rehearsal of Glover's production of "A Christmas Carol," which is being performed Dec. 16-18 at Upstage Arts Youth Theater in Webster. less

Marc Anthony Glover, right, directs Seth Bredbenner, left, Milo Kyle and Alane Rozell during rehearsal of Glover's production of "A Christmas Carol," which is being performed Dec. 16-18 at Upstage Arts Youth ... more

Marc Anthony Glover directs Seth Bredbenner, left, Milo Kyle and Alane Rozell in Glover's production of âA Christmas Carol,â which is being performed Dec. 16-18 at Upstage Arts Youth Theater in Webster. less

Marc Anthony Glover directs Seth Bredbenner, left, Milo Kyle and Alane Rozell in Glover's production of âA Christmas Carol,â which is being performed Dec. 16-18 at Upstage Arts Youth Theater in ... more

"Steampunk is a stylized, Victorian-era look of clothing and pieces, but we have modernized it," said Glover, who joined Upstage Arts this year after a 10-year tenure as founder and executive director at Stage Door Inc., which closed last year in Pasadena.

"We have modern conveniences that are available in the 21st century," said Glover, 34. "But in our universe, everything is run by steam power."

"It all depends on if one of the cast members needs to drop out due to conflicts that have recently arisen," Glover said.

"Marc's adaptation is a delightful story of redemption, second chances, and the true meaning of Christmas," said the theater's business manager, Michael Ward, 60, of Seabrook.

A female Scrooge

"Also, our Scrooge is a female," said Glover, explaining that he cast 14-year-old Alane Rozell as "Ebaneeza" Scrooge, the miserly British business owner who begrudges giving Christmas Day off with pay to the humble, overworked and underpaid clerk, Bob Cratchit.

Schweitzer, Taylor and Van Buren recently appeared in "Sweeney Todd" at Upstage Arts in a production of the theater's new group of adult actors, called the Downstage Players.

Theater to mark 10th year

Ward said the nonprofit theater will celebrate its 10th anniversary in January. A former engineer at Union Carbide in Clear Lake, Ward said he became involved in theater when his daughter, Emma, now 20, was a budding actress at age 5.

"She was at the age that you don't drop them (off), you stay; so I hung around the theater," he said. "I'm a builde; so I like working backstage."

Glover is a 2001 graduate of Dayton High School who lived in Pasadena before Stage Door lost its lease on South Shaver Street and had to close. Glover moved back to the Dayton area and works as a guest artist in the theater department at Lee College in Baytown.